Peter Weber (writer)
Peter Weber (born April 22, 1968 in Wattwil , Switzerland ) is a Swiss writer and musician .
Life
Peter Weber lived in Zurich for several years after finishing school. Here he worked on several projects with musicians from different fields, including a. Bahnhofsprosa live with Denis Aebli (drums, electronics, Vox theremin), Singing Eisen, Spangen und Gleise with the four poetic Jew's Harps ( Bodo Hell , Michel Mettler , Anton Bruhin , Peter Weber) together. He also performed with the improvising string quartet “Die Firma” from Zurich and Bern. In 1993 his first novel Der Wettermacher appeared .
Awards
- 1993: Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
- 1994: Sponsorship award from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
- 2000: Prize for individual works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation for silver and salads
- 2000: Sponsorship award from the St. Gallen Cultural Foundation
- 2002: Cultural award from the Canton of Zurich (year of work)
- 2004: Town clerk of Bergen -Enkheim
- 2007: Solothurn Literature Prize
- 2008: Schiller Prize of the Zürcher Kantonalbank for the years without melodies
- 2008: Alemannic Literature Prize for The Years Without Melody
- 2012/2013: Scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia Bamberg
Works
prose
- The weather maker . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993
- Silver and Salbader. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999
- Station prose. Miniatures. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002
- The years without melodies. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007
Essays
- Die Welt der Synesthesien / Synaesthetic Worlds (on Peter Mettler's Gambling, Gods & LSD , 2002).
- Tendrils, phrases, blue flowers: everything grows out of the undergrowth . Liner notes on Lucas Niggli : Big Zoom, Big Baal , Intakt CD 083, 2002.
- Zwischen den Mushroom threads / In among the mushroom threads . In: Konrad Bitterli (ed.): The Great Unknown. Andres Lutz, Anders Guggisberg . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2002, pp. 14-16.
- How Roman Signer lured salmon to Eastern Switzerland. A fantasy . In: Beat Wismer, Stephan Kunz, Sibylle Omlin (eds.): Mussels and flowers. Literary texts on works of art , Zurich 2003, pp. 341–345.
- Switzerland is a city, the German language an event . In: BELLA triste No. 6, 2003.
- From Toggenburg to Berlin Alexanderplatz. A language awakening experience with Alfred Döblin and its later aftermath (inaugural address to the city clerk in Bergen-Enkheim, September 3, 2004). In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 27, 2004.
literature
- Andreas Mauz: Peter Weber. Chroniqueur des monts et des sons. In: FEUXCROISES. Littératures et Echanges culturels en Suisse. Revue du Service de Presse Suisse. 7, 2005, pp. 73-89 (Dossier, French).
Web links
Commons : Peter Weber (writer) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Publications by and about Peter Weber (writer) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Peter Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Peter Weber in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Peter Weber on culturactif.ch
- Peter Weber in the town clerk archive Bergen-Enkheim
Individual evidence
- ^ Alemannic Literature Prize. 2008 - Peter Weber, Switzerland. City of Waldshut-Tiengen, archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 .
- ^ Weber, Peter ( Memento from March 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weber, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wattwil |